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a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; "used her parents' influence to get the job"

a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"

the effect of one thing (or person) on another; "the influence of mechanical action"

a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc; "used her parents' influence to get the job"

a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"

the effect of one thing (or person) on another; "the influence of mechanical action"

A flowing in or upon; influx.

Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.

Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.

Induction.

To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.

A flowing in or upon; influx.

Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.

Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.

Induction.

To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.

Energy or power tending to produce effects by indirect or invisible means; as, a great leader must have real influence over men; power arising from wealth or station; as, through the influence of the politician he obtained the position; that which exerts power over someone or something.

To have unseen power over, physically or mentally; to change.

Power exerted on men or things: power in operation: authority.

To affect: to move: to direct.

Operating power; authority.

To affect; move; direct.

To act upon, as by mental power or unseen agency; affect; move.

The gradual or unseen operation of some cause; ability to sway the will of another.

Influencely.

Power which affects men or things, whether physically, morally, or spiritually; sway; authority.

Authority; sway; power of directing or modifying, seen or felt by its effects.

To move or affect by moral force; to lead or direct; to move by physical power.

n. [Latin] A flowing in or upon; influx ; -the visible operation of an invisible power;—in physics, the effect produced on material bodies by the secret forces in nature, as of light, heat, air, &c. ;- the effect formerly supposed to be produced by the planetary system on terrestrial persons and events;- in morals, the effect of truth on the mind; motive; consideration; reasonable inducement; force acting on the heart or affections; constraining power of love or sympathy;- effect produced by individual charcter, social rank, wealth, &c. ; sway; authority; control;- spiritual or divine power acting on the heart or life.

Power of the celestial aspects operating up on terrestrial bodies and affairs; ascendant power, power of directing or modifying.